hello; Tell me Earl Brown what ever's going on with your set up it sounds great. Is that a Ga. trick with the hole in the stat? I've never heard of that. How's your car in the summer Ga heat?
IBBY
The hole is a 'steam hole' drilled at 12:00 on the thermostat flange. Since it's a SBC unit it was designed to be mounted horizontally (giggity). Anytime you have a vertical thermostat it's a good idea to put a hole up high to let any captive air bubbles out so the radiator cap can burp it out.
No, no oil cooler yet. I had a huge one but it had a leak so I removed it last fall. ... That reminds me, I need to start shopping for an oil cooler before summer! (actually I might wait now that I can log oil temps to the tenth of a degree )
EDIT: I just noticed something on my powerlogger screen grab. If you look when I floored it and the IAT's started climbing, my coolant temp actually dropped just a smidge. Kinda neat you can see the extra flow and pressure on the screen.